
Paul Wesley
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Good rant. Even when I was a kid, it bothered me to hear adults say that about weather in Texas. It's decidedly not true. I'd think, "Didn't we just hit 100 degrees thirty days (or more) in a row?"
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Is there a thread to talk about how much Bon Jovi sucks?
Paul Wesley replied to Paul Wesley's topic in Music
Me too. Keifer wrote some legit riffs/songs, even though the dominant genre at the time was cartoonishly bad. In the words of Bill Burr, "When I was a kid, you dressed like a girl and sang about the devil. Now THAT was music." -
Is there a thread to talk about how much Bon Jovi sucks?
Paul Wesley replied to Paul Wesley's topic in Music
They were the ones with spandex and hairspray. -
I'm not sure if the allegation is that the photos are AI-generated, or the music is, or both. Beato's theory is that AI-generated songs are harder for an algorithm to split into stems - which strikes me as a plausible theory but certainly not a slam-dunk. Or if the music was made by some dude in his bedroom, and then he marketed it with photos that were deliberately chosen to be recognized as AI-generated. I guess you could argue that if we're talking about it, then the ploy worked (but based on that YouTube clip, they're not gonna get any streams from me).
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Speaking of forgiving a clunker... I used to laugh about the backing vocals on this track. It sounds exactly like a backing vocalist learning a song they've never heard and fishing around to find the harmonies. Except in this case, they used the first pass on the record. Turns out the vocalists in question was Stevie. In fairness to her, Stewart hits a few clams himself. The first syllable of "shower" at 1:00 is off by at least a half step. I was under the impression that in 1979, cocaine gave everybody the energy to work hard and get it right, but maybe not...
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If the monitoring is bad, even reasonably good singers can sound pretty awful. Unless you're a unicorn of a vocalist, you're going to crash and burn without being able to hear both yourself and some instrument for reference. I'm willing to forgive a clunker here and there.
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For several years, I had the Empress phaser on my board. I was working on a lot of 70's-inspired funk songs, and the Empress has some modes where it behaves more like an envelope filter. The problem was that you had to access the back side of the pedal to engage those switches. It was a pretty cool studio tool, but way too complex and inaccessible to live on a pedalboard. It got replaced by the Waylon phaser, which is much simpler, yet still gets a nice range of useable sounds.
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I think you should start with a vast arsenal of high-end instruments and gear. Everything else flows from there.
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Ugh. Looked like an achilles.
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What do you have against 25-minute videos that could have been 3 minutes?
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Ignoring the clickbait headline (spoiler: nothing goes off the rails, much less OFF THE RAILS).
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Sly Stone, 82.
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Yeah, it's just weird to write an "I'm gonna kick his ass" song, and then hypertune your voice so you sound like Cher. That incongruence is one of the defining characteristics of Bro Country.
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I have a lot of fondness for this Nerf Herder tune:
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I rewatched the aggie game recently (what can I say... it's the offseason). It's crazy how they got most of the big-play breaks that night: Texas lost a fumble on the aggie 10, threw a pick-6 on a tipped ball on their 10, and got a punt blocked that the Aggies recovered at around the Texas 20. The Aggies got more than enough big breaks to pull off the home upset against a better team... EXCEPT that they were physically dominated pretty much every snap all night long. It was a 17-7 game that was nearly 34-0. Liucci watched the same game and says thing will "even out in short order?" "Farmer is better than Benson," "Reggie is better than Vince," "Things are going to even out in short order." No, no, and highly unlikely.
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